Cult movie: Halfaouine: Child of the Terraces 
(Asfour Stah)
(Asfour Stah) German title: Halfaouine – Zeit der Träume
Francaise title: Halfaouine – l’enfant des terrasses
Russian title: Мальчик на крыше
Original title: Asfour Stah
Francaise title: Halfaouine – l’enfant des terrasses
Russian title: Мальчик на крыше
Original title: Asfour Stah
Alternative titles:
Halfaouine | Asfour Stah | Halfaouine, l’enfant des terrasses | Halfaouine – Das Kind der Dächer | Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Halfaouine | Asfour Stah | Halfaouine, l’enfant des terrasses | Halfaouine – Das Kind der Dächer | Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Youth drama – Tunesien, France
Production year: 1990
Movie length: 98 minutes
Production year: 1990
Movie length: 98 minutes
Director: Férid Boughedir
Writer: Férid Boughedir, Nouri Bouzid, Taoufik Jebali, Maryse León García
Cinematograph: Georges Barsky
Music: Anouar Brahem
Writer: Férid Boughedir, Nouri Bouzid, Taoufik Jebali, Maryse León García
Cinematograph: Georges Barsky
Music: Anouar Brahem
Movie description:
A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Moslem women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.13-year-old Noura is a Muslim boy who still goes with his mother to the women’s Turkish baths in Tunisia. In an atmosphere of political oppression, the men will not allow him in their adult conversations, and yet his abusive father scolds him for hanging around with the women, who seem to welcome him. To ingratiate himself with two older boys, Nora takes some girly magazines from his father’s shop to share, and they recruit him to spy on and report back details of the women’s anatomy at the baths, awakening his sexual feelings. When he is banned from those baths for trying to »get a peek«, his attention focuses on a 15-year-old orphan servant girl who recently moved into their home. The story takes place during the celebrations over the upcoming circumcision of Noura’s 4-year-old brother (a highly graphic sequence). The title of the film derives from Noura’s habit of travelling through his neighbourhood over roof-tops.
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